They won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English.

Curtis adds that being highly numerate and having good analytical skills is increasingly important.

This sophisticated approach to risk requires a numerate society, which causes challenges for Ireland's schools.

We're the least literate and numerate country in Africa.

Any numerate school student could make the calculation.

The less numerate among us parents took some time to ensure we had correctly calculated the result.

This would clinch things in favour of VHI, even among the least numerate, and most credulous taxpayers.

But why do I numerate these details

Sporting and educational facilities are in abundance in the area, so many that they are impossible to numerate.

And more numerate, too, as Steven Johnson described in his 2005 book, Everything Bad Is Good for You.

A mathematical riddle that has frustrated the world's most numerate minds for more than 40 years has been solved.

But then a numerate correspondent wrote in trashing the statistic, and I've never been able to believe in it since.

Or to put it another way, our children and our grandchildren are less literate and less numerate than we are.

Sir, - Are there enough numerate people around to form a little celebration party for the end of the millennium?

Sir, -There seems to be an ever-increasingtendency for The Irish Times to regard its readership as not being in any way numerate.

The first is that President Zuma has done sums that show he will not need the votes of the numerate and literate in June.